return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 11 months ago‘Stop the price-gouging’: Biden hits corporations over high consumer costswww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square224fedilinkarrow-up1878arrow-down122
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minus-squarepan_troglodytes@programming.devcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down7·edit-211 months agothat was basically it. short of siccing the irs on them there’s not a lot the executive branch can do about it… of course that’d kill the golden goose named “campaign contributions”, so it wont happen
minus-squareSCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·11 months ago siccing the IRS on them Nothing the IRS can do, either.
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoWindfall taxes is a thing they can use. If companies raise their prices too fast the excess profit gets taxed at a higher rate.
minus-squareSCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·11 months agoNeed the House for that tho.
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minus-squarepahlimur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down7·11 months agoNo. Just stop with the disinformation.
that was basically it. short of siccing the irs on them there’s not a lot the executive branch can do about it… of course that’d kill the golden goose named “campaign contributions”, so it wont happen
Nothing the IRS can do, either.
Windfall taxes is a thing they can use. If companies raise their prices too fast the excess profit gets taxed at a higher rate.
Need the House for that tho.
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No. Just stop with the disinformation.